65. Providing arms for the militia throughout the United States.

66. Respecting Alien enemies.

67. To declare the treaties heretofore concluded with France, no longer obligatory on the United States.

68. Further to protect the commerce of the United States.*

69. Limiting the time within which claims. against the United States, for credit on the books of the Treasury, may be presented for allowance.

70. To provide for the valuation of lands and dwelling houses, and the enumeration of slaves, within the United States.

71. To augment the army of the United States, and for other purposes.

72. To enable the President of the United States to borrow money for the public service.

73. For erecting a light house at Gay-Head, on Martha's Vineyard, and for other purposes.

74. Authorizing an additional naval armament.. 75. For the relief of sick and disabled seamen. 76. For allowing an additional compensation. to the door-keepers and assistant door-keepers of the Senate and House of Representatives.

77. In further addition to the act, intitled, "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States."

* The President was hereby authorized, whenever he should judge it expedient, to instruct the public armed vessels in the service of the United States, to seize any armed French, or pretended French vessels, found within the jurisdictional limits of the United States, or elsewhere on the high seas.

78. To suspend, for a further time, the duties upon the manufacture of snuff within the United States, and the drawback upon the exportation thereof.

79. Making certain appropriations, and to authorize the President to obtain a loan on the credit. of the direct tax.

30. Allowing an additional compensation to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, and their Clerks, for the present session of Congress.

81. Making certain additional appropriations for the year 1798.

82. Authorizing the grant and conveyance of a certain lot or piece of ground to Eli Williams.

83. To alter and amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War and Navy Departments.

84. To amend the act, intitled, "An act to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France.

85. An act in addition to the act, intitled, "An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States." The 1st clause of this act, which was termed the Sedition Act, ordained, "that if any person should unlawfully combine or oppose any measure of the government of the United States, or intimidate any person holding a place or office under the same, he shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding 5000 dollars, and im

prisoned during a term not less than six months, and not exceeding five years."

2d clause expressed, "that if any person should write or publish, or cause to be written or published, any libel against the government of the United States, or either House of Congress, or against the President, he should be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years.' This act was to

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CHAPTER VI.

Reflections on the conduct of the President....Dismission of Mr. Gardner of New-Hampshire.... Spies encouraged....Anecdote of the Spy Oram.... Treatment to General Sumpter of South-Carolina, at the New-Circus, Philadelphia....Federal mob on the 9th of May, 1798....Dismission of Dr. James Reynolds from the Dispensary at Philadelphia....Persecution by the Dunkards.... Federal addresses....Vanity of the President....Remarks of Mr. Callender on the President's answer to the New-Jersey Militia....Procession of the President from Quincy to Boston...Bostonian honors....Reception given to the President at Fanuiel-Hall.... Characters of the Senators and Members of the House of Representatives.

THE beginning of the year 1798 may not improperly be styled the commencement of the reign of terror in the United States. Previous to the spring of this year, the image of a republic, and the mildness of Washington's administration were preserved with a decent reverence. The unfortunate alien had not to dread a dungeon more horrible than that which he escaped, nor was the pen or the lips of the patriot compelled to submit to the rigid forms of a sedition law. The wavering intellect of Mr. Adams had only now assumed the consistency of a tyrant. Although he might have long aspired at sovereign power, his administration

was unstained with acts of cruelty. He had not, previous to this period, calumniated virtue, punished merit, rewarded vice, and given a poignancy to the rage of contending parties. Whatever his intentions might formerly have been, his conscience and not the world witnessed their criminality.

William Gardner, commissioner of loans for New-Hampshire, a man of honor and integrity, was one of the first whom he deprived of the means of supporting a numerous family, on account of his political principles. This gentleman had in December, 1790, accepted the above office....he was then treasurer of New-Hampshire, a placé worth about a thousand dollars per annum....his situation as commissioner amounted only to six hundred and fifty....he did not solicit his new office....he was urged to accept of it by an assurance that Congress would augment the salary....as they did not, Mr. Gardner signified his intention to resign within eighteen months after his acceptance. Mr. Hamilton, then Secretary of the Treasury, sent him a létter in answer, dated the 14th of June, 1792. In this letter, Mr. Hamilton éxpresses the warmest approbation of Mr. Gardner's services, and regrets that they had not been adequately rewarded....he solicited him to continue his situation, with the assurance that his salary would be enlarged. Mr. Gardner received two other letters in the same style from Mr. Hamilton, and two from his successor, Mr. Wolcott....of these, the last is dated so late as February 6th, 1797. In summer, 1798, hẻ